safefood Tenders & Contract Awards
What safefood buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
safefood has nothing open for bidding today. Its last notice closed on 27 March 2026. 1 tender notice has come from this buyer since monitoring began.
safefood has awarded 6 contracts totalling €5.8M between 2021 and 2025. Top supplier by disclosed value is Javelin Group (1 award).
Its three largest suppliers hold 63% of the disclosed value. No company has yet won here in more than one year, so the field is more open than most.
Public buyers rarely change supplier mid-contract. The opening is usually a new requirement, not a switch.
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Open now
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Tender notices tracked
6
Contract awards
€5.8M
Disclosed value
€1.2M
Average per award
5
With named winner
safefood
| Contracting Authority | safefood · Active Irish public buyer |
| Top Incumbent Winners | Javelin Group · Common Good Agency Limited |
| Extended Panel (#3+) | The Pierce Partnership Trading as The Foundation · ASG and Partners · PHD Ireland |
| CRO & Spend Radar | CRO B1/B10/C1 status, supplier concentration share, and >EUR 20k purchase-order spend |
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No open tenders from safefood right now
Last tender closed on 27 March 2026. New notices publish daily. Set up an alert below or check back tomorrow.
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Recently closed
Most recent 1 of 1Closed notices are retained as a signal of what this authority actually procures. Deadlines have passed, do not bid.
Most recent awards: 2025
safefood has 1 published contract award in 2025 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €2.5M across the 1 award with published values.
Top winners in 2025
- Javelin Group1 award
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.Javelin Group1 · €2.5M
- 2.Common Good Agency Limited1 · €640k
- 4.ASG and Partners1 · €150k
- 5.PHD Ireland1 · Not disclosed
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Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | €2.1M |
| 2022 | 2 | €1.1M |
| 2025 | 1 | €2.5M |
How safefood Evaluates Tenders (Price vs Quality Scorecard)
Across 18 graded eTenders notices, safefood evaluates 100% of competitions on Price & Quality (MEAT) and 0% on Lowest Price Only.
Primary Regime
100% MEAT
18 MEAT · 0 Price Only
Typical Weighting Split
30% Price / 70% Quality
OGP Professional Services MEAT benchmark
Typical Contract Term
18 months
Median across 24 contracts (avg 25.5m)
Contracts Expiring in the Next 6 Months (180-Day Re-Tender Window)
View all 457 expiring Irish contracts ->No disclosed contracts over EUR 100,000 for safefood have an estimated end date in the next 180 days. Browse the full 180-day expiring contracts radar across all Irish authorities ->
By value band
- €144k-€360k1 · €150k
- €360k-€1M2 · €1.1M
- €1M-€5M2 · €4.5M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 6
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 0
- Most contested award
- Provision of Advertising and Creative Services for Safefood
- 13 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: Media Planning and Buying Services (5 bids)
By procedure
- Competitive Procedure With Negotiation: 1
- Restricted Procedure: 5
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 62.9% of €5.8M total disclosed value, a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Javelin Group | 43.2% | - | - |
| Common Good Agency Limited | 11.1% | Normal | also won €30k across 4 other Irish bodies → |
| The Pierce Partnership Trading as The Foundation | 8.6% | - | also won €3.7M across 5 other Irish bodies → |
| ASG and Partners | 2.6% | - | also won €2.2M across 1 other Irish body → |
| PHD Ireland | 0% | - | also won Not disclosed across 2 other Irish bodies → |
Buyer Competition & Concentration Scorecard (Framework-Deduplicated)
Computed from 6 published OGP contract awards (CC-BY 4.0), deduplicating multi-lot framework ceiling repeats.
Single-Bidder Award Rate
0%
0 of 6 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender
Top Supplier Spend Share
66%
Top 3 suppliers: 96% across 4 winners
Winner Concentration (HHI)
4,826
0 to 10,000 scale on deduplicated spend (<1,500 unconcentrated)
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TenderWatch ProAward history (6 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 May 2025 | Provision of Advertising and Creative Services for Safefood | Javelin Group | 13 | Competitive Procedure With Negotiation | €2.5M |
| 7 October 2022 | Design, Print and Print Management | The Pierce Partnership Trading as The Foundation | 7 | Restricted Procedure | €500k |
| 24 June 2022 | Digital Advertising Creative Services | Common Good Agency Limited | 12 | Restricted Procedure | €640k |
| 1 May 2021 | Media Planning and Buying Services | PHD Ireland | 5 | Restricted Procedure | - |
| 21 January 2021 | Public Relations Services | ASG and Partners | 11 | Restricted Procedure | €150k |
| 7 January 2021 | Advertising and Creative Services | undisclosed | 11 | Restricted Procedure | €2.0M |
Open-market vs limited-competition mix · average bids · SME-access ratio
Other major buyers
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Last updated 7 November 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2021-01-07. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.